Los Angeles police chief greeted by boos at meeting

THOMAS WATKINS, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, September 8, 2010

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has been greeted by boos, whistles and chants of "justicia!" by an angry crowd at a community meeting intended to calm residents after the fatal police shooting of a knife-wielding man.

About 300 people are at the meeting at a school in the Westlake neighborhood where 37-year-old Manuel Jimenes was shot to death Sunday by an officer after he allegedly lunged at the officer with a knife.

Beck read a witness' statement provided by investigators. The witness, a neighborhood resident who wasn't named, said she saw a man bleeding from his hand but thought nothing of it until he tried to stab her and a pregnant woman standing next to her.